I did a similar experiment. I installed Xubuntu on a 166MHz laptop to see if it would run well enough to be usable. Then I asked someone to give it a shot and compare it with her laptop running windows XP and had at least 2GHz processor. After she browsed a few web pages, I asked "Which is faster; Your laptop or this one?" She quickly replied "This one". I chuckled because I knew the truth. This laptop was at least 10x slower than her laptop.
Power running through a wire creates a EM field. Run power and signal cables separïately. Someone once told me of a car audio installer who kept running the cables in parallel next to each other. He kept wondering why every time he would rev the engine his speakers would make noise. Cross power and signal cables at right angles and put some distance between them if you're running in parallel.
Besides that I find grouping the cables with electrical tape every couple of feet works well. Electrical tape has no electrical significance I just like using it.
You have to choose between NASA or public health-care. This is an oversimplification, but I think NASA has brought us far as a nation. Tell your senator where you think the priorities should be.
You can choose a different OS. I don't think Microsoft did anything wrong. As a consumer the responsibility of picking a product that behaves the way you want is in your hands.
Safari uses webkit. They don't have to support it. Webkit has a good record of supporting most open standards. They get it for free. Although I believe apple contributes quite a bit.
The only complaint might be from the broadband provider, who could be carrying traffic for a rival.
The reason I use Comcast is because I can use high bandwidth services. I know Comcast doesn't have a cell phone network, but trust me, your ISP, weather or not they have a cell network, are not complaining about finding new reason why you should keep your service.
Length of enjoyment (equals) amount of money earned, so developers have a strong incentive to keep players from gaining power and levels too quickly.
I get board if I can't level fast enough. I guess that why I don't play mmorpgs anymore. I think gaining levels should be matched on the content of the game of course, but most grinds are just too boring. If you have to raid the same place too often it hurts rather than helps.
I won't even drink Starbuck's coffee. Call me picky, but I don't need a magazine tell me what is worth drinking. I'd still prefer the atmosphere of starbucks to McDonalds.
Even if I did eat McDonalds food there I don't think I like the atmosphere enough to stay. There coffee tastes like piss anyway. With all the great local free wifi around where I live I'd have to be pretty desperate to go there. Simple solution: open up a coffee shop next door.
Because the article doesn't have any technical detail either. I would assume that the new features allow them to connect through some sort of peering mechanism, but the article doesn't go into detail.
You forgot to mention that DNSSEC does nothing to make DNS more secure.
Why would engineers and scientists write a standard if it didn't work? Your statement doesn't make sense. Signing DNS information WILL make DNS more secure.
'sed', 'perl', 'awk' and 'mount' are not part of the shell. for and trap are part of a posix standard shell.
It's subtle, but the differences are easy to understand. The best example I can think of is most linux systems I've used use bash, but Ubuntu make/bin/sh a symbolic link to/bin/dash because it's faster. Many scripts are broken because they expect/bin/sh to be a symbolic link to/bin/bash. This is not an assumption you can make.
This causes a problem for example when you use bash functions like popd which isn't part of the posix standard. If you want to use popd use the right shell by adding #!/bin/bash to the top of your script.
awk and perl should behave the same even if you change shells.
The 10,000th patent covers a technology that allows a device to associate data with objects placed on its surface, and is likely eventually to become part of the Surface table PC.
Doesn't matter how much testing you do; There is always the human factor. Machines won't change that. I guarantee you either the voter or the administrator will somewhere somehow mess it up.
It's just a little piece that contributes to the greater problem. Somewhere along the way the government decided that television is a right and not a privilege. In every other type of technology when standards change and equipment has to be upgraded the consumer pays for it.
I've heard the argument that the increased ad revenue makes the cost worth it(not sure if this is accurate) so why isn't the television companies paying for it? Plus it's not the guys who can't afford a $40 box that networks are advertising to.
I can't think of a good reason why future generations of this country are going to pay for our television today.
Particle collisions happen in nature. If we could that easily blink ourselves out of existence then we'd see planets disappearing all the time and black holes would be everywhere.
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I did a similar experiment. I installed Xubuntu on a 166MHz laptop to see if it would run well enough to be usable. Then I asked someone to give it a shot and compare it with her laptop running windows XP and had at least 2GHz processor. After she browsed a few web pages, I asked "Which is faster; Your laptop or this one?" She quickly replied "This one". I chuckled because I knew the truth. This laptop was at least 10x slower than her laptop.
Power running through a wire creates a EM field. Run power and signal cables separïately.
Someone once told me of a car audio installer who kept running the cables in parallel next to each other. He kept wondering why every time he would rev the engine his speakers would make noise.
Cross power and signal cables at right angles and put some distance between them if you're running in parallel.
Besides that I find grouping the cables with electrical tape every couple of feet works well. Electrical tape has no electrical significance I just like using it.
It's yes and no. We determined it to be both simultaneously.
Nope.
You have to choose between NASA or public health-care. This is an oversimplification, but I think NASA has brought us far as a nation. Tell your senator where you think the priorities should be.
1. Belgium fines yahoo.
2. Yahoo doesn't pay.
3. Belgium scratches their head wondering what to do next.
If the US fines Yahoo and Yahoo doesn't pay the US freezes Yahoo's assets. Belgium doesn't have that option.
You can choose a different OS. I don't think Microsoft did anything wrong. As a consumer the responsibility of picking a product that behaves the way you want is in your hands.
It isn't like any of the browser are 100% complient anyway.
That is the excuse Microsoft used to set back open web standards years with IE. Two wrongs don't make a right.
Safari uses webkit. They don't have to support it. Webkit has a good record of supporting most open standards. They get it for free. Although I believe apple contributes quite a bit.
Nah the religious right wouldn't wish AIDS on anyone...except /. trolls.
The only complaint might be from the broadband provider, who could be carrying traffic for a rival.
The reason I use Comcast is because I can use high bandwidth services. I know Comcast doesn't have a cell phone network, but trust me, your ISP, weather or not they have a cell network, are not complaining about finding new reason why you should keep your service.
Length of enjoyment (equals) amount of money earned, so developers have a strong incentive to keep players from gaining power and levels too quickly.
I get board if I can't level fast enough. I guess that why I don't play mmorpgs anymore. I think gaining levels should be matched on the content of the game of course, but most grinds are just too boring. If you have to raid the same place too often it hurts rather than helps.
Anyone have an Idea about what are system requirements?
I won't even drink Starbuck's coffee. Call me picky, but I don't need a magazine tell me what is worth drinking. I'd still prefer the atmosphere of starbucks to McDonalds.
Even if I did eat McDonalds food there I don't think I like the atmosphere enough to stay. There coffee tastes like piss anyway. With all the great local free wifi around where I live I'd have to be pretty desperate to go there. Simple solution: open up a coffee shop next door.
Because the article doesn't have any technical detail either. I would assume that the new features allow them to connect through some sort of peering mechanism, but the article doesn't go into detail.
You forgot to mention that DNSSEC does nothing to make DNS more secure.
Why would engineers and scientists write a standard if it didn't work? Your statement doesn't make sense. Signing DNS information WILL make DNS more secure.
Post-beta is really relative. I consider all windows OSes beta until 2 years after the initial release.
Not to mention the TFR(temporary flight restriction) that follows him wherever he goes.
'sed', 'perl', 'awk' and 'mount' are not part of the shell.
for and trap are part of a posix standard shell.
It's subtle, but the differences are easy to understand. The best example I can think of is most linux systems I've used use bash, but Ubuntu make /bin/sh a symbolic link to /bin/dash because it's faster. Many scripts are broken because they expect /bin/sh to be a symbolic link to /bin/bash. This is not an assumption you can make.
This causes a problem for example when you use bash functions like popd which isn't part of the posix standard. If you want to use popd use the right shell by adding #!/bin/bash to the top of your script.
awk and perl should behave the same even if you change shells.
The 10,000th patent covers a technology that allows a device to associate data with objects placed on its surface, and is likely eventually to become part of the Surface table PC.
http://mtg.upf.es/reactable/
Oh yeah...someone already invented a table that associates data with objects placed on it.
Doesn't matter how much testing you do; There is always the human factor. Machines won't change that. I guarantee you either the voter or the administrator will somewhere somehow mess it up.
Buying everyone a radio is cheaper than buying everyone a converter box.
It's just a little piece that contributes to the greater problem.
Somewhere along the way the government decided that television is a right and not a privilege. In every other type of technology when standards change and equipment has to be upgraded the consumer pays for it.
I've heard the argument that the increased ad revenue makes the cost worth it(not sure if this is accurate) so why isn't the television companies paying for it? Plus it's not the guys who can't afford a $40 box that networks are advertising to.
I can't think of a good reason why future generations of this country are going to pay for our television today.
Particle collisions happen in nature.
If we could that easily blink ourselves out of existence then we'd see planets disappearing all the time and black holes would be everywhere.